Tom Robbins Quotations | Page 3

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.